Trump Lashes Out At The Media, U.S. Intelligence, And Hillary Clinton In Response To The Latest Russia Reports

On Valentine’s Day Night, the New York Times published a report that detailed how U.S. intelligence intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence agents. This, of course, is not a good look after Trump insisted that he knew nothing of Russia’s hacking efforts to help him get elected. As expected, Trump is losing his mind on Twitter this morning over the NY Times report, and he’s blaming … everyone. First, he tweet-shouted at the “fake news media,” except for Fox News.

The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!

Trump’s always good with whatever Fox News does — even when Bill O’Reilly is giving him a hard time — but he’s particularly thrilled that both Fox News and Breitbart are honing in on this story for the “leak” aspect. And it’s no wonder Trump prefers this angle. After National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigned following mounting reports of his vulnerability to Russian blackmail, Trump also tweeted that leaks are the “real story.”

The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?

Then came more of Trump’s outrage about leaks to the media, although he very much adored the fallout from the John Podesta email dumps by Wikileaks, which the right-wing media gleefully reported at length. Oh, and he’s trashing U.S. intelligence again despite Reince Priebus claiming that Trump and the CIA buried their beef with a “love fest.”

Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia

However, there’s one shining beacon of reason here, which is that someone finally told Trump that Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. During his campaign, Trump remained blissfully unaware of these realities. However, Trump ruined his displayed knowledge of global affairs by, you know, blaming Obama for everything, too.

Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?

The precious little snowflake can’t stop crying foul and blaming everyone but himself. Meanwhile, the sky is still blue and Trump supporters are still ignorant to the fact that Trump is corrupt and should be in jail rather than running the country. I’m thankful he spends more time golfing in Florida than actually doing his job cause his administration is a mockery to American democracy.

If the leaks are the real story and not the content or whatever within said leaks, then why the fuck did we constantly hear EMAILS! during the election?

Seriously though, imagine all of this is going on with hillary instead of trump. You’d have oath keepers and a whole slew of right wing militias trying to march on the Whitehouse with guns to hang her for treason, they wouldn’t give one single fuck that the intelligence community leaked the info, they would solely care about the apparent collusion with Russia. Fuck I hate this guy so much. He tweets like a jilted ex boyfriend or girlfriend and he’s the fucking president. I really hope everyone who voted for him feels like a giant piece of shit watching this absolute laughingstock of a presidency unfold before our eyes. Hasn’t even been a god damn month yet.

Yup remember like two months ago when Trump was practically gushing over Julian Assange and Wikileaks (who had leaked classified Iraq War files to the public)? He was cool with the DNC leaks, he encouraged Russia to leak Hillary’s State Department emails, the list goes on and on. Orange Mussolini is cool with leaks when they are directed at his enemies, just not himself.

What a one-note guy. Attack attack attack. That’s why he was good in the election, people can be incited to hate. But now that he needs to govern, all he knows is attack attack ATTACK.

When something is “terrible” he doesn’t have to get into a nuanced discussion about it, which he is absolutely incapable of following — let alone directing/leading.

He bores easily, readily dishes out but cannot accept criticism, and has absolutely zero strength of conviction for anything. He’s so weak minded he has appointed people who don’t know what they’re doing to give him guidance and support. And he wants to sink billions of dollars into a fucking wall?

How long will his gross incompetence and sheer ineptitude continue to be the story? Racism, bigotry, and xenophobia make for a shitty presidential skillset. Hang this motherfucker in effigy and beat the shit out of that orange pinata.

It’s because most Trump voters secretly wanted Trump to lose, so that the “devil” Crooked Hillary would be in power and they would have free range to complain about *EVERYTHING*. “This wouldn’t have happened if Trump was president!” “He would have saved our country!”

Well guess what, the moron they voted for is actually in there, and he’s doing a shitty job, and now the burden is on the Trump voter’s shoulders, and they look like fucking goobers because of it.

The voting in this election was all about spiting the other side, and that ended up sucking for everyone.

See the thing is, both sides want to “red pill” the other (to borrow a favorite term of the MAGA people). Those quiet Trump supporters are just waiting and hoping for something to come out that validates and vindicates them.

They are simply biding their time, at least that’s what they think they are doing.

@DSC seriously. People in my office are such unpatriotic shills for Trump and all things-Fox / Breitbart that you could hear a pin drop the day after Obama got Osama. I really don’t understand how Red Don and his fans – and they’re fans not supporters – even attempt to claim a stake on “patriotism”, “security”, and “making the economy great!”. These same people are shutting the F up right now too, and I’d say they were duped but that assumes they would ever consider voting against their team, no matter how much more qualified, fit to serve, even-tempered, literate and better for the country / planet earth the other candidate is.

2 problems
1 he wasnt impeached, he finished both terms
2 They tried to impeach him for lying under oath. Which is a impeachable offense, cheating on your wife is not a reason to try the president.
Unless Monica was privy to classified info, it was nobody’s business.

@Bruce Leroy I’ve been kicking around a theory in my head that Trump winning, while obviously good for the Republicans in the short term because they get to enact policy for few years, might actually end up being worse for them in the long run.

In 2018, the house probably won’t change much. There just aren’t very many competitive house districts any more. But there are a lot of Senate seats up for grabs in swing states. Most of these are currently held by Dems because the 2018 election is for people elected in 2012 on Obama’s coattails. With Hillary Clinton in the White House, 2018 becomes an obvious rallying cry, allowing the Republicans to gain a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and improve their holdings in the House.

Meanwhile, the Dems would still be under the false impression that the Clintonian “third way” is what the liberal base wants preventing any real reform and leaving the democrats vulnerable to getting slaughtered in 2020 when redistricting happens again. They could have really cemented conservative control for a decade with no real hope for the Democrats to do anything to impede their agenda, all by simply sacrificing 4 years.

Now, the Democrats are the fired up party with obvious rallying cries in the next two election cycles AND the obvious incentive to make real changes to the way the party works and who it appeals to. Meanwhile, Trump is not really a Republican. Many of his ideas (like spending a ton of money on infrastructure to put people to work, and limiting free trade would not look out of place in a Democratic platform) so their base is fractured between the true small government conservatives, the evangelical, and the Angry Trump Voter coalition so they have real questions about the path forward. Is it more Trump style populism and nationalism? Is it Ryan style fiscal conservatism? Is it Pence/Cruz style Evangelism?

Of course this is all moot when the Democrats find a way to squander all this energy and become the first opposition party to not gain ground in the midterm in a long time.

If you read other sites that are not so liberal, I’m sure you’ve seen complaints about how it is illegal to wiretap a US Citizen as part of intelligence collection For the most part that is true. Chicago Tribune / Foreign Policy.com has a good article on why that didn’t apply to Flynn.